Posted on 05/07/2025 5:27:15 PM PDT by McGruff
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for a lengthy diplomatic visit in the aftermath of a massive drone attack on the Russian capital.
Mr. Xi traveled to Russia for a four-day visit that will include signing numerous cooperation agreements and attending a Victory Day parade in Moscow on Friday celebrating the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
The visit is part of the “no limits” partnership between Russia and China, which Mr. Xi hopes to deepen with the trip. Mr. Xi is also expected to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin and a possible oil pipeline that could carry Siberian oil into China.
The Chinese leader’s visit comes after a wave of drones launched from Ukraine disrupted Russian airspace and forced Moscow airports to close, affecting 60,000 passengers. Russian military leaders say they have shot down more than 500 drones over the past 24 hours.
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The globalists are getting more desperate and dangerous by the hour.
I picture these guys trying to light a damp fuse with a box of wooden matches. The matches either sputter out or snap when they try to strike them. But one of these times ...
Meanwhile, India and Pakistan ...
Has the doomsday clock moved yet?
Time for a conventional Oreshnikin attack in Kiev. Hope our diplomats have a good basement.
The conflict in Ukraine is not merely, or even chiefly, about territorial gains. It is about destroying the opposing army and not just its military equipment. Soldiers are being killed and maimed. These casualty statistics are government statistics. I trust the viewers of this channel have sufficient savvy to know that all information provided by a government should be taken with a grain of salt, if not a saline IV.
MOSCOW, May 7 - RIA Novosti. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 255 servicemen in the area of operations of the Russian force group “North” in one day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
MOSCOW, May 7 - RIA Novosti. The Russian force group “West” defeated formations of three mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a national guard brigade and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of Gusinka, Staroverovka, Kupyansk, Nechvolodovka in the Kharkiv region and Yampol in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
“The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 230 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 11 vehicles, five field artillery guns, a Kvertus electronic warfare station and three ammunition depots,” the Russian Defense Ministry added.
MOSCOW, May 7 - RIA Novosti. The Russian “Southern” group of troops defeated the manpower and equipment of seven Ukrainian brigades in the areas of six settlements in the DPR; the enemy lost more than 320 servicemen, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
MOSCOW, May 7 - RIA Novosti. The Russian “Center” group defeated the formations of six Ukrainian brigades in the areas of six settlements in the Donetsk People’s Republic; the enemy lost more than 490 servicemen, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
MOSCOW, May 7 - RIA Novosti. The “East” group continued to advance deep into the enemy’s defenses, defeated the Ukrainian Armed Forces brigades in the DPR and Zaporozhye Oblast; the enemy lost up to 225 servicemen and a tank in the group’s area of action, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
MOSCOW, May 7 - RIA Novosti. Russian units of the Dnepr group destroyed up to 60 Ukrainian soldiers, six vehicles and two ammunition depots in one day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday.
How do you know this is really Xi Jinping? He’s used body doubles when he was concerned about security.
It is Xi Jinping. For sure. Because of the pipeline discussion. More than anything else, that.
Everything should be viewed through the prism of oil and gas.
China consumes 16 million barrels/day of oil. It produces 4.6 million bpd. The rest is imported — and it is critically important to understand that the 16 mbpd grows 5%/yr.
The difference comes from the Middle East and Russia. Russia’s Transneft has pipeline capacity of about 2.5 million bpd with more coming, likely from Sakhalin rather than west. Kazahkstan supplies another 500K bpd through a pipeline of their own.
In general, about 1/2 of China’s oil imports are coming from Russia and China vis pipelines and shipping. The rest purely shipping from KSA and Iran/UAE.
Then there is gas, and Russia is the big Kahuna of gas with 40 trillion cubic meters, piping it to China with more and more routes.
And that’s why he’s making the trip. Oil and gas are everything.
According to Chinese history textbooks, the PLA defeated the Japanese during WWII with a little help from the United States.
Poor timing.
“The globalists are getting more desperate and dangerous by the hour.”
I’d say the Ukes have sunk to the Russians terrorist level. Is there any military purpose to this? Loks like plain old terror bombing to me. Oh well, they’re brothers anyway, exactly alike.
“in the aftermath of a massive drone attack on the Russian capital.
I get the impression these massive drone swarms on Moscow are not primarily being used to destroy buildings and kill people, but rather to annoy, scare and disrupt people’s ordinary lives, like at airports. Not the same as the Russian attacks on cities in Ukraine which kill and main a lot of civilians including children.
,,, as long as it runs on land there's no chance ship anchors can damage it.
Are you mental? Listen to yourself. Terrorism is terrorism. How do you know people wren’t killed?
I think you are both right. People are being killed, but its purpose is to terrorize. It’s a game played in all wars.
A drone swarm on Moscow will have the same effect as the Doolittle Raid on Japan. It’s purpose was to let the enemy know they can hit anywhere they want. The raid also boosted the morale of America.
Be cool if a drone blew up putz and xi the pooh at the same time.
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